Publication Date:
22
August
2007

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781589066496.017

ISBN: 9781589066496

The IMF is charged by its Articles of Agreement and a 1977 Executive Board Decision to exercise surveillance over the international monetary system and members' exchange rate policies. The overriding question addre...

Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND

Publication Date:
15
October
2007

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781589066687.086

ISBN: 9781589066687

Economic developments in Asia have been positive so far in 2007. Growth has been stronger (and in many cases more balanced) than expected across much of the region, again led by China and India, and inflation press...

Publication Date:
07
April
2008

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781589066380.084

ISBN: 9781589066380

The rapid increase in international trade and financial integration over the past decade and the growing importance of emerging markets in world trade and GDP have inspired the IMF to place stronger emphasis on mul...

Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND

Publication Date:
04
December
1996

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781557756008.084

ISBN: 9781557756008

The 18 members of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Council (APEC) encompass not only a wide geographic area but also broad differences in stages of economic development, including among them some of the fastes...

Publication Date:
17
April
1998

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781455220038.051

ISBN: 9781455220038

This paper examines the recent evolution of exchange rate policies in the developing world. It looks at why so many countries have made a transition from fixed or "pegged" exchange rates to "managed floating" curre...

Publication Date:
17
April
1998

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781557756923.051

ISBN: 9781557756923

This paper examines the recent evolution of exchange rate policies inthe developing world. It looks at why so many countries have made a transition from fixed or "pegged" exchange rates to "managed floating"currenc...

Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND

Publication Date:
01
September
1981

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781616351939.011

ISBN: 9781616351939

This paper reviews key findings of the IMF's Annual Report for the fiscal year ended April 30, 1981. The report highlights that the world economic situation during 1980 and the first half of 1981 was difficult and...

Author(s):
International Monetary Fund. Research Dept.

Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND

Publication Date:
20
April
2004

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781589064065.081

ISBN: 9781589064065

The World Economic Outlook, published twice a year in English, French, Spanish, and Arabic, presents IMF staff economists' analyses of global economic developments during the near and medium term. Chapters give an...

Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND

Publication Date:
15
October
1997

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781557756817.081

ISBN: 9781557756817

This paper presents an outlook for the world economy for 1997-98. With world output expected to expand by some 41/4 percent in both 1997 and 1998, the strongest pace in a decade, the global economy is enjoying the...

Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND

Publication Date:
10
April
2015

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781475595512.071

ISBN: 9781475595512

With a combined population of more than 350 million people, frontier and developing Asia, which includes countries such as Vietnam, Cambodia, and Bangladesh, is located in the world's fastest-growing region and has...